American Chinese may refer to:
- Sino-American relations, the relations between mainland China and the United States
- Chinese American, US citizens/residents of Chinese origin or descent
- American-born Chinese, a subset of the above category
- Chinese American cuisine, Chinese cuisine developed by Chinese immigrants to the United States
- Americans in China, especially those who participated in the building of Communism, such as:
- Ma Haide (George Hatem) (1910–1988), formerly George Hatem, a doctor and public health official
- Joan Hinton (a former nuclear physicist) and her husband Erwin Engst, who worked in agriculture near Beijing and made significant contributions to the dairy industry
- Sidney Rittenberg, an interpreter, scholar, and former member of the Communist Party of China, who eventually returned to the United States
- Sidney Shapiro, translator of the Chinese classic Water Margin
- Persons of mixed "American" (usually meaning White American) and Chinese descent; see:
- Eurasian (mixed ancestry), people of mixed Asian and European ancestry
- Amerasian
Famous quotes containing the words american and/or chinese:
“Can you conceive what it is to native-born American women citizens, accustomed to the advantages of our schools, our churches and the mingling of our social life, to ask over and over again for so simple a thing as that we, the people, should mean women as well as men; that our Constitution should mean exactly what it says?”
—Mary F. Eastman, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4 ch. 5, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to China, and he got so far that, as he said, he heard the Chinese pots and kettles rattle; but I think that I shall not go out of my way to admire the hole which he made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)